Who needs to pray for whom? Republicans and conservatives who are crying crocodile tears over the what the Taliban will do to women in Afghanistan would have a lot more credibility if they first showed the slightest concern for the rights of women in THIS country, now under unprecedented assault in Texas (aka the Caliphate of Gilead; Y’all Qaeda) as the Supreme Court goes silent on an emergency request to put the law on on hold until it can be fully litigated, and allows a law to effectively outlaw all abortions as of 12:01 a.m. September 1.
By just going silent, not even issuing a ruling or providing an explanation, they effectively allow Roe v. Wade — which has been SETTLED LAW for almost 50 years — to die a silent death in a midnight massacre.
When Roe v. Wade was decided in January of 1973, it was not legally controversial. It was decided 7-2 — not even close — and written by Harry Blackmun, a REPUBLICAN appointee of Richard Nixon, citing personal liberty issues and based on the “intent of the Founders,” since abortion had been legal in all 13 colonies at the time of this nation’s independence, and continuing legal in all states for almost 50 years, until Connecticut became the first to outlaw it in 1821.
I have provided a detailed analysis of the legal issues in Roe, including a link to the actual text of the Roe v. Wade decision at my site:
Who needs to pray for whom? Republicans and conservatives who are crying crocodile tears over the what the Taliban will do to women in Afghanistan would have a lot more credibility if they first showed the slightest concern for the rights of women in THIS country, now under unprecedented assault in Texas (aka the Caliphate of Gilead; Y’all Qaeda) as the Supreme Court goes silent on an emergency request to put the law on on hold until it can be fully litigated, and allows a law to effectively outlaw all abortions as of 12:01 a.m. September 1.
By just going silent, not even issuing a ruling or providing an explanation, they effectively allow Roe v. Wade — which has been SETTLED LAW for almost 50 years — to die a silent death in a midnight massacre.
When Roe v. Wade was decided in January of 1973, it was not legally controversial. It was decided 7-2 — not even close — and written by Harry Blackmun, a REPUBLICAN appointee of Richard Nixon, citing personal liberty issues and based on the “intent of the Founders,” since abortion had been legal in all 13 colonies at the time of this nation’s independence, and continuing legal in all states for almost 50 years, until Connecticut became the first to outlaw it in 1821.
I have provided a detailed analysis of the legal issues in Roe, including a link to the actual text of the Roe v. Wade decision at my site:
http://emerald7tfb.wordpress.com/2011/05/22/legal-aspects-of-reproductive-rights/
Texas now protects the legal rights of a virus, but not the legal rights of women.